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1. mgaldys4 · 1790086411 · focus · HN ↗

   Even the Millennium Prize Problems have, in a way, become benchmarks for model companies to prove themselves. The smartest individuals among humans are becoming replaceable. Intelligence has become a product you can quantify and buy with electricity. That feels awful.

   1. kypro · 1790086742 · focus · HN ↗

      All technology on the tech tree which requires intelligence to unlock will soon be available to humanity – mind control, population exterminating bioweapons, new ultra destructive kinetic weaponry, perhaps even a cure for cancer.

      1. dgellow · 1790086976 · focus · HN ↗

         That won’t happen. But also, whatever benefits are unlocked will be owned mostly by a small group of individuals, definitely not available to humanity as a whole.

         1. kypro · 1790087878 · focus · HN ↗

            > That won’t happen.

            Why?

            > But also, whatever benefits are unlocked will be owned mostly by a small group of individuals, definitely not available to humanity as a whole.

            It's unclear to me if this is the good scenario or bad scenario. This would be good in your view right? At least I hope you're right.

            1. dgellow · 1790088453 · focus · HN ↗

               > Why?

               Because it is delusional. Having an intelligent machine doesn’t mean you can somehow mind control individuals.

               And no, that would be pretty terrible. Why would that be good? The AI leadership is composed of anti-democratic, sociopathic, doomsday cultists who believe it makes sense to sacrifice the world economy and possibly mankind itself for a possible utopian future they developed based on their media illiterate reading of sci-fi. They are very likely the worst people who should ever be given power

               1. kypro · 1790095591 · focus · HN ↗

                  > Having an intelligent machine doesn’t mean you can somehow mind control individuals.

                  Excluding advanced forms of psychological manipulation, sophisticated neurological drugs and neural simulation for moment.

                  Are you suggesting that it's physically impossible to create a device which could induce electromagnetic currents in the brain which could in-theory either effectively control, or greatly influence someone's decision making?

                  I understand it would be extremely hard for humans, but can you explain why you're so confident that this would be such a hard problem that even an ASI couldn't solve it?

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